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Re:It’s Time to Build by XorNot on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:27PM (#22912681)
It means power is captured by those who can afford lawyers, and lawyers are expensive. There's no way to plan your risks up front in an area with not a lot of case-law, because you don't know them - your business plan now gets to be "hopefully we win this case in our favor in the next 3 years, but if it goes all the way to the supreme court..."
Re:It’s Time to Build by kds3 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:56PM (#22912810)
Lawyers are expensive only if _you_ have to pay for them. In English law (UK/EU) loser pays most lawyer's fees. This also disincentivizes businesses to start unwinnable cases in order to ruin other businesses with legal fees.